Spotify will suspend its services in Russia in light of free speech crackdown – TechCrunch

Spotify will discontinue access to its streaming services in Russia in light of the country’s dramatic new restrictions on free speech. In early March, the Russian parliament enacted a new law that criminalizes sharing what the government deems to be “false information” about Russia’s operations in Ukraine. The new restrictions also punish any speech that…

IT can play a major role in driving sustainability – TechCrunch

Jeff Kukowski Contributor Jeff Kukowski is CEO at CloudBolt, which helps companies automate easily, optimize continuously and govern at scale in hybrid and multicloud, multitool environments. With data centers alone consuming around 1% of global electricity demand, IT departments have substantial influence on their organization’s sustainability goals. Significantly reducing the amount of energy used to…

Colabs gets $3 million seed to expand across Pakistan, launch back-office SaaS solution – TechCrunch

Lahore-based coworking space startup, Colabs, is set to roll-out a SaaS product to enable businesses meet back-office needs including company registration, talent sourcing and management, payroll processing and legal and tax compliance. It also plans to hire more staff, which will include increasing the product team for its SaaS workspace business service that is emerging…